Genetics, Identity, and the Anthropology of Essentialism
... Knowledge of ancestry ratifies or even creates a social connection in the present. For example, geneticists in England have used Y-chromosome markers to demonstrate that at least one of the clans of Lemba, a tribe in South Africa and Zimbabwe, may be descended from Semitic peoples. Lemba interpreted ...
... Knowledge of ancestry ratifies or even creates a social connection in the present. For example, geneticists in England have used Y-chromosome markers to demonstrate that at least one of the clans of Lemba, a tribe in South Africa and Zimbabwe, may be descended from Semitic peoples. Lemba interpreted ...
social anthropology
... is to explore in depth one of the fundamental insights that the anthropological study of human cultures has to offer: the insight that the reality we inhabit is socially or culturally constructed. People who live in different cultures, in other words, inhabit different realities. The course begins w ...
... is to explore in depth one of the fundamental insights that the anthropological study of human cultures has to offer: the insight that the reality we inhabit is socially or culturally constructed. People who live in different cultures, in other words, inhabit different realities. The course begins w ...
The sources of this essay are a bias
... mystical presence, and dragging in Nietzsche’s enigmatic notion of eternal recurrence, do we proceed to build that synthetic model? A start might be found in a variant of that comfortably worn heuristic device, “If I were a horse. . .” In keeping with my evoked quantum bias, we will not worry much a ...
... mystical presence, and dragging in Nietzsche’s enigmatic notion of eternal recurrence, do we proceed to build that synthetic model? A start might be found in a variant of that comfortably worn heuristic device, “If I were a horse. . .” In keeping with my evoked quantum bias, we will not worry much a ...
`Mixed race`, `mixed origins` or what? - Mix-d
... other and are mutually implicated. Clearly, terminology that is unfamiliar to or poorly understood by the members of a collectivity that it purports to describe will be of questionable validity and utility, especially if such terminology is used in data collection. ‘Mixed race’, the most widely used ...
... other and are mutually implicated. Clearly, terminology that is unfamiliar to or poorly understood by the members of a collectivity that it purports to describe will be of questionable validity and utility, especially if such terminology is used in data collection. ‘Mixed race’, the most widely used ...
Developing the Race model
... The proposal is that communities (often quite large ones eg. states, regions, nations3) would be nominated to be participants in the Race by one or more organisations. At the time of nomination, a nominating organisation would specify what that organisation wants to see sustained over-and-above the ...
... The proposal is that communities (often quite large ones eg. states, regions, nations3) would be nominated to be participants in the Race by one or more organisations. At the time of nomination, a nominating organisation would specify what that organisation wants to see sustained over-and-above the ...
An evaluation of nasal bone and aperture shape among three... populations Jennifer L. McDowell, MSc
... No. 30, which empowered the 1951 census bureau to racially classify every South African into four groups: “Native/Bantu” (Black); Coloured, White, and Asian. The social designation of coloured refers to a highly admixed group of people, primarily from the Western Cape, that are comprised of influenc ...
... No. 30, which empowered the 1951 census bureau to racially classify every South African into four groups: “Native/Bantu” (Black); Coloured, White, and Asian. The social designation of coloured refers to a highly admixed group of people, primarily from the Western Cape, that are comprised of influenc ...
English
... efforts to formulate the idea of ‘world civilisation’).7 On the other, it was intended to reassure apartheid’s internal supporters that the Bantustan policies of ethnic selfdetermination could be justified in biological as well as cultural terms. The second problem has to do with the potential for ...
... efforts to formulate the idea of ‘world civilisation’).7 On the other, it was intended to reassure apartheid’s internal supporters that the Bantustan policies of ethnic selfdetermination could be justified in biological as well as cultural terms. The second problem has to do with the potential for ...
The Body`s appearance in Anthropology: Cultures
... anthropology realizes that the empiric object that was chosen (the so called primitive societies) has been disappearing: it is the worldwide “acculturation” phenomena, the end of the “savage”, the death of the “primitive” and his culture. The encounter between “knowledge” and “technique” has receive ...
... anthropology realizes that the empiric object that was chosen (the so called primitive societies) has been disappearing: it is the worldwide “acculturation” phenomena, the end of the “savage”, the death of the “primitive” and his culture. The encounter between “knowledge” and “technique” has receive ...
Cultural diplomacy and the concept of the Other
... sense of identity, tradition and history. Finally, in high-context cultures, time is flexible and the process is more important than the product. By contrast, low-context cultures are defined by the mass of information explicitly used. Communication is of short duration and accessible; thus, emphasi ...
... sense of identity, tradition and history. Finally, in high-context cultures, time is flexible and the process is more important than the product. By contrast, low-context cultures are defined by the mass of information explicitly used. Communication is of short duration and accessible; thus, emphasi ...
Definitions, Forms and Nuances of Racism
... Reprisal is punishing someone for complaining about human rights concerns. A poisoned environment may be created by a single Code-related comment that makes you feel unwelcome or uncomfortable. Harassment occurs when Code-related comments or conduct are unwelcome or ought known to be unwelcome, and ...
... Reprisal is punishing someone for complaining about human rights concerns. A poisoned environment may be created by a single Code-related comment that makes you feel unwelcome or uncomfortable. Harassment occurs when Code-related comments or conduct are unwelcome or ought known to be unwelcome, and ...
Race and place: social space in the production of human kinds
... This is also apparent in Hacking’s essays on human kinds that were published before The Social Construction of What?25 Not that material considerations are contrary to his framework; rather, Hacking overlooks them. This oversight is serious, given the power of material conditions, such as place over ...
... This is also apparent in Hacking’s essays on human kinds that were published before The Social Construction of What?25 Not that material considerations are contrary to his framework; rather, Hacking overlooks them. This oversight is serious, given the power of material conditions, such as place over ...
Exhibit Review - Hampshire College
... solid general sense of what we wanted to accomplish, we often disagreed on specifics and how to accomplish what we wanted to. We all see race and racism from our specific locations. For examples, ...
... solid general sense of what we wanted to accomplish, we often disagreed on specifics and how to accomplish what we wanted to. We all see race and racism from our specific locations. For examples, ...
Anthropological insights into the use of race/ethnicity to explore
... of this work involves determining what role, if any, genetic differences play in such disparities. This is a sensitive issue, since the use of racial/ethnic categories in genetic and biomedical research appears to recognize these categories as scientifically and genetically meaningful – in direct con ...
... of this work involves determining what role, if any, genetic differences play in such disparities. This is a sensitive issue, since the use of racial/ethnic categories in genetic and biomedical research appears to recognize these categories as scientifically and genetically meaningful – in direct con ...
Mapping Racial Attitudes at the Century`s End: Has the Color Line
... fair to conclude thatAmerica has been successfully struggling to resolve its Dilemma and that equality has been gaining in ascendancy over racism" (1989, p. 168). And so the battle is joined. This great debate, whether waged at the level of public intellectuals or between empirical social scientist ...
... fair to conclude thatAmerica has been successfully struggling to resolve its Dilemma and that equality has been gaining in ascendancy over racism" (1989, p. 168). And so the battle is joined. This great debate, whether waged at the level of public intellectuals or between empirical social scientist ...
Race, Racism, and Antiracism: UNESCO and the
... Although the UNESCO statements have often been cited as evidence of just how influential the new universalist, antiracist consensus had become in the postwar life sciences, the legacy of this “improved” science was ambiguous.10 What actually seems 8 The literature on the social construction of race ...
... Although the UNESCO statements have often been cited as evidence of just how influential the new universalist, antiracist consensus had become in the postwar life sciences, the legacy of this “improved” science was ambiguous.10 What actually seems 8 The literature on the social construction of race ...
Goodman, et al. 15
... Mukilteo Lumber Company hired these workers beginning in 1803but they were not allowed to live in Mukilteo, but instead were pushed into the Gulch. ...
... Mukilteo Lumber Company hired these workers beginning in 1803but they were not allowed to live in Mukilteo, but instead were pushed into the Gulch. ...
7 Reflections on a White Discipline
... often adhering to a more positivist approach, is particularly significant in terms of policy. Such research findings can actually be used in political, administrative, and legal decisions. The second category, critical race theory, is less policy-oriented, but has important implications for how we t ...
... often adhering to a more positivist approach, is particularly significant in terms of policy. Such research findings can actually be used in political, administrative, and legal decisions. The second category, critical race theory, is less policy-oriented, but has important implications for how we t ...
In the Museum of Man: Anthropology, Racial Science, and
... their successors in the first half of the twentieth century.3 Although their hypotheses were racist, in the sense that anthropologists assumed from the outset that a hierarchy of races with different mental capacities existed, these same scholars established professional norms for testing their hypo ...
... their successors in the first half of the twentieth century.3 Although their hypotheses were racist, in the sense that anthropologists assumed from the outset that a hierarchy of races with different mental capacities existed, these same scholars established professional norms for testing their hypo ...
Test No Topics for the Test
... human disease, genetic screening, genetic counseling, human DNA profiling, gene mapping and genome study. 9.5 Race and racism, biological basis of morphological variation of non-metric and metric characters. Racial criteria, racial traits in relation to heredity and environment; biological basis of ...
... human disease, genetic screening, genetic counseling, human DNA profiling, gene mapping and genome study. 9.5 Race and racism, biological basis of morphological variation of non-metric and metric characters. Racial criteria, racial traits in relation to heredity and environment; biological basis of ...
- Leeds Beckett Repository
... references to Britain having ‘racial connotations’ with Britain being ‘racist’ is emblematic and symptomatic of ‘just how powerful the white colonial frame remains in shaping the terms of the debate, what can be debated and how that debate takes place when it comes to the politics of race and nation ...
... references to Britain having ‘racial connotations’ with Britain being ‘racist’ is emblematic and symptomatic of ‘just how powerful the white colonial frame remains in shaping the terms of the debate, what can be debated and how that debate takes place when it comes to the politics of race and nation ...
Race and ethnicity in the construction of the nation in Spain: the
... Sepúlveda about the human condition of American Aboriginals provided the initial articulation of racism that would linger in the next five centuries. While Las Casas anticipated cultural racism, considering that Aboriginals had a soul but had to be Christianized, Sepúlveda anticipated biological raci ...
... Sepúlveda about the human condition of American Aboriginals provided the initial articulation of racism that would linger in the next five centuries. While Las Casas anticipated cultural racism, considering that Aboriginals had a soul but had to be Christianized, Sepúlveda anticipated biological raci ...
Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The
... On the other hand, hatred, enmity, antagonism, and conflict among racial groups are universal cultural phenomena, observable through the ages and still prevalent today. This is so despite the fact that science has more authority than ever before. In fact, although population geneticists declare that ...
... On the other hand, hatred, enmity, antagonism, and conflict among racial groups are universal cultural phenomena, observable through the ages and still prevalent today. This is so despite the fact that science has more authority than ever before. In fact, although population geneticists declare that ...
ANTH 2351 - HCC Learning Web
... Make sure to be familiar with the main issues discussed in the additional readings and what each video is an example of. Many of these themes are present in the Essay options, so even if you choose not to do certain Essays, it is good to consider those that do deal with the assigned additional readi ...
... Make sure to be familiar with the main issues discussed in the additional readings and what each video is an example of. Many of these themes are present in the Essay options, so even if you choose not to do certain Essays, it is good to consider those that do deal with the assigned additional readi ...
Third Edition
... – Biological races do not exist among humans • Human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop into discrete groups • Biological variation between human populations involves gradual shifts (clines) in gene frequencies and other biological features, not sharp breaks ...
... – Biological races do not exist among humans • Human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop into discrete groups • Biological variation between human populations involves gradual shifts (clines) in gene frequencies and other biological features, not sharp breaks ...
Human Biological Variation
... Distribution of Skin Color as an Example of the Clinal Approach to ...
... Distribution of Skin Color as an Example of the Clinal Approach to ...